I just bought a new (refurbished) Everexe StepNote laptop with a VIA C7-M CPU and a VIA chipset, installed CentOS 5.4 on it and the audio is not working.
I looked around for a sound driver for the VIA vt1708/a, which is what it claims to have (see below), but that didn't work either.
Any pointers as to what I'm missing?
!lpspci
04:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT1708/A [Azalia HDAC] (VIA High Definition Audio Controller) (rev 10)
!lsmod | grep snd
snd_seq_dummy 7877 0 snd_seq_oss 32577 0 snd_seq_midi_event 11073 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 49585 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 11725 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq snd_pcm_oss 42817 0 snd_mixer_oss 19009 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 72133 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 24517 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 14281 1 snd_pcm snd_hwdep 12869 0 snd 55749 8 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep soundcore 11553 1 snd
Thanks.
mhr
MHR wrote:
I just bought a new (refurbished) Everexe StepNote laptop with a VIA C7-M CPU and a VIA chipset, installed CentOS 5.4 on it and the audio is not working.
I looked around for a sound driver for the VIA vt1708/a, which is what it claims to have (see below), but that didn't work either.
Any pointers as to what I'm missing?
Really stupid question: did you try running system-config-sound, and making sure that system volume wasn't on mute?
mark
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:30 AM, mark m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
MHR wrote:
I just bought a new (refurbished) Everexe StepNote laptop with a VIA C7-M CPU and a VIA chipset, installed CentOS 5.4 on it and the audio is not working.
I looked around for a sound driver for the VIA vt1708/a, which is what it claims to have (see below), but that didn't work either.
Any pointers as to what I'm missing?
Really stupid question: did you try running system-config-sound, and making sure that system volume wasn't on mute?
Yes, that was the first place I checked. It shows:
VIA Technologies, Inc. VT1708/A [Azalia HDAC] (VIA High Definition Audio Controller) Module: snd-hda-intel
The PCM device setting space is blank.
Under the System tab, it shows:
ALSA Driver version: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.14rc3 ALSA Lib package(s): alsa-lib-1.0.17-1.el5 ALSA Utils package(s): alsa-utils-1.0.17-1.el5
The "latest" audio driver I could find was the 1.40 patched driver, and that didn't work at all (could not even recognize the sound card).
I would only consider the question stupid if I had already answered it, which I did not - thanks.
mhr
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:30 AM, mark m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
MHR wrote:
I just bought a new (refurbished) Everexe StepNote laptop with a VIA C7-M CPU and a VIA chipset, installed CentOS 5.4 on it and the audio is not working.
I looked around for a sound driver for the VIA vt1708/a, which is what it claims to have (see below), but that didn't work either.
Any pointers as to what I'm missing?
Really stupid question: did you try running system-config-sound, and making sure that system volume wasn't on mute?
Yes, that was the first place I checked. It shows:
And the volume is slid up, I assume. <snip>
I would only consider the question stupid if I had already answered it, which I did not - thanks.
I've made a point, over the years, to try to think of "stupid" questions, when I need to step back, and look at the bigger picture, and see if there's an alternate branch of the fault tree that we've missed.
mark
On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 21:40:28 -0800 MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
You can try to install fresh alsa-driver package from Elrepo repository (which named kmod-alsa there). http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php
I just bought a new (refurbished) Everexe StepNote laptop with a VIA C7-M CPU and a VIA chipset, installed CentOS 5.4 on it and the audio is not working.
I looked around for a sound driver for the VIA vt1708/a, which is what it claims to have (see below), but that didn't work either.
Any pointers as to what I'm missing?
!lpspci
04:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT1708/A [Azalia HDAC] (VIA High Definition Audio Controller) (rev 10)
!lsmod | grep snd
snd_seq_dummy 7877 0 snd_seq_oss 32577 0 snd_seq_midi_event 11073 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 49585 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 11725 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq snd_pcm_oss 42817 0 snd_mixer_oss 19009 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 72133 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 24517 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 14281 1 snd_pcm snd_hwdep 12869 0 snd 55749 8 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep soundcore 11553 1 snd
Thanks.
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On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 23:38 +0300, Ilya Ponetayev wrote:
On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 21:40:28 -0800 MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
You can try to install fresh alsa-driver package from Elrepo repository (which named kmod-alsa there). http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php
I just bought a new (refurbished) Everexe StepNote laptop with a VIA C7-M CPU and a VIA chipset, installed CentOS 5.4 on it and the audio is not working.
I looked around for a sound driver for the VIA vt1708/a, which is what it claims to have (see below), but that didn't work either.
Any pointers as to what I'm missing?
!lpspci
04:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT1708/A [Azalia HDAC] (VIA High Definition Audio Controller) (rev 10)
!lsmod | grep snd
snd_seq_dummy 7877 0 snd_seq_oss 32577 0 snd_seq_midi_event 11073 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 49585 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 11725 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq snd_pcm_oss 42817 0 snd_mixer_oss 19009 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 72133 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 24517 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 14281 1 snd_pcm snd_hwdep 12869 0 snd 55749 8 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep soundcore 11553 1 snd
Thanks.
mhr
Have you tried any switches in alsamixer ? sometimes one or another will get either turned off or turned on and that will cause no sound from the speakers.
LostSon
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 2:51 PM, lostson lostson@lostsonsvault.org wrote:
Have you tried any switches in alsamixer ? sometimes one or another will get either turned off or turned on and that will cause no sound from the speakers.
Yeah - once I got the driver from the elrepo installed, this fixed the rest of it.
Thanks.
mhr
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Ilya Ponetayev inste@mail.ru wrote:
You can try to install fresh alsa-driver package from Elrepo repository (which named kmod-alsa there). http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php
That was part of it - thanks.
mhr
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